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Reorganization

noun

The imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes). Synonyms: reorganisation, shake-up, shakeup. "Top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup"

An extensive alteration of the structure of a corporation or government. "The reorganization was prescribed by federal bankruptcy laws"

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"Reorganization" Quotes from Famous Books

... latter was issued, negroes were allowed to enlist in the Army, and they fought well and bravely. After the War, in the reorganization of the Regular Army, four regiments of colored men were provided for—the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry. In the cartoon, Sambo has evidently been asking "Uncle Abe" as to the probability or possibility of ...

— Lincoln's Yarns and Stories • Alexander K. McClure

... months past she had counted on chance. The disbandment of the Imperial troops and the reorganization of the Royal army caused a change in the destination of many officers, who returned, some on half-pay, others with or without a pension, to their native towns, —all having a desire to counteract their luckless fate, and to end their life in a way which ...

— The Jealousies of a Country Town • Honore de Balzac

... institution caught the great spirit of their predecessor and in their efforts to continue the useful work which she had done, followed so closely in the path which she had trodden as to assure success and preclude any necessity for general reorganization. ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various

... Then, too, a reorganization of the Department of Justice, of the Bureau of Corporations in the Department of Commerce and Labor, and of the Interstate Commerce Commission, looking to effective cooperation of these agencies, is needed to secure a more rapid and ...

— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various

... of the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries was in many ways the last attempt to reinstate it, and failure to do so pronounced its doom. We cannot now look forward to the reorganization of civilized Europe on the model of the Roman Empire or of an Empire at all, and the more definitely formulated hope of salvation by the erection or re-erection of an international system of law in any real sense seems to me an unsubstantial ...

— The Unity of Civilization • Various

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